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| 1. |  | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies Author: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Medicine | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | Women's Studies | Science Publisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal state  Author: Brennan, Troyen A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine Publisher's Description: Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The corporate practice of medicine: competition and innovation in health care Author: Robinson, James C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Medicine | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic pain Author: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Paths to Asian medical knowledge Author: Leslie, Charles M 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Like its classic predecessor, Asian Medical Systems , Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge significantly expands the study of Asian medicine. These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | History Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Public health law and ethics: a reader Author: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Health Care Publisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: A flourishing Yin: gender in China's medical history, 960-1665 Author: Furth, Charlotte Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Women's Studies | China | Medicine Publisher's Description: This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke , or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and the end of the Ming dynasty. Using medical classics, po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Economics and Business | History and Philosophy of Science | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: American medicine: the quest for competence Author: Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Medicine | Science | Medical Anthropology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care?These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Healing the masses: Cuban health politics at home and abroad Author: Feinsilver, Julie Margot Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Medicine | Public Policy Publisher's Description: How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in Bolivia Author: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Medical Anthropology | Medicine Publisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Mental ills and bodily cures: psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century Author: Braslow, Joel T 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Psychiatry | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | Psychology Publisher's Description: Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Disciplining reproduction: modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex" Author: Clarke, Adele Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Writing at the margin: discourse between anthropology and medicine Author: Kleinman, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Medicine | Asian Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: One of the most influential and creative scholars in medical anthropology takes stock of his recent intellectual odysseys in this collection of essays. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist and psychiatrist who has studied in Taiwan, China, and North America since 1968, draws upon his bicultural, multi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Medicine | History | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more] Similar Items |